Vilnius: The European Commission is expected to launch legal action against France later Thursday over its application of the national minimum wage to foreign truck drivers, a top EU official said.
Brussels will send a formal letter launching the procedure "in a few hours", said Elzbieta Bienkowska, the EU's internal market chief.
"From the single market perspective it raises quite a lot of concerns," she told reporters in Lithuania, which is among Eastern European nations opposing the French law.
The EU's executive arm has already launched a similar legal challenge against Germany for requiring foreign firms to pay the local minimum wage.
The EU's powerful regulator objects to the application of a national minimum wage to lorry drivers passing through the country even just for a few hours and the substantial paperwork associated with that.
AFP
